Why should Calzaghe have the privilege

[ACEA]

I think all the big fights should be held in Vegas. There is just something about Vegas, all the greats have fought there, its the glits, glamour and 24 hour party atmosphere that Cardiff or anywhere else for that matter just cant provide

[LEGION]

all good points but manfredo didnt have a choice it was the Uk or nowhere, surely you dont think calzaghe shoulda travelled to fight the contender runner up.

I don't even think Calzaghe should have fought Manfraudo in the 1st place; much less where it took place. Isn't there somewhere Joe and Hop can fight that's not in the U.S. or Wales? Like Ireland? Like the Russians and Americans when they went there to talk about nuclear disarmament? What a couple of puss#es. They should fight in Turkey, cause that's what they both act like

[superheavyrhun]

I think all the big fights should be held in Vegas. There is just something about Vegas, all the greats have fought there, its the glits, glamour and 24 hour party atmosphere that Cardiff or anywhere else for that matter just cant provide

How many fights you been to at each destination? Can't say I been to Vegas, but from what I've seen in "the movies" and fights televised from there, it seems a little dead to me. Then again, I'm biased as I love a good fight night and a knees up down in Cardiff.

[ACEA]

Botha v Tyson is the only fight i have ever been to but i was in vegas a few days before the first Tyson Holyfield fight and there was a real buzz around the place

[Vintage]

I think all the big fights should be held in Vegas. There is just something about Vegas, all the greats have fought there, its the glits, glamour and 24 hour party atmosphere that Cardiff or anywhere else for that matter just cant provide

Can't disagree more. This is an international sport with many great fights fought all over the world; including, Madison Square Gardens, Atlantic City, Mexico City, London, Paris, Africa, Asia, and on and on and on. All big fights being in Vegas will only diminish the sport. Unfortunately, this seems to be happening anyway.

[Violent Demise]

Why do all of the big fights have to be in the USA? Champion of the WORLD means just that. Not just champion of the USA. These Yanks are so full of themselves it's pathetic. The same people make a world series every year which does not include the world at all. Get over yourselves Americans. If anything, they should have the fight in some poor country like Ali/Foreman did. Peter Manfredo Jr. had the balls to travel abroad and Hopkins doesn't? What is up with that?

Ain't that like saying Audley Harrison had the balls to come to the US but not Calzaghe?

Nah, Audley couldn't get one man and his dog to watch him anymore, so he thought he'd go con you lot.

I doubt anybody would get tired of watching Harrison get knocked out

Why do all of the big fights have to be in the USA? Champion of the WORLD means just that.

why does all of Calzaghe's big fights have to be in the UK? I could understand Kessler and Lacy going to the UK to try to dethrone him, but if Calzaghe wants to dethrone Hopkins he should come here. Simple honor and respect demands in.

At the end of the day, this is going to show us who wants it more. I think Calzaghe will come just this once to the U.S.
Calzaghe should ask for a compromise which states that if Calzaghe comes to America, he will get the much larger purse because B-Hop is not only being a biatch about the location, he is also playing hardball regarding the money situation. I say make this fight in a neutral country and winner takes the bigger purse. These two old phuk heads are acting like kids. No wonder they never grow old because neither one has grown up.

Sounds like you got it bang on. But whilst we're at it....Hopkins has left the US twice, for opponents with a combined record of (26-10-1), whilst Calzaghe's two opponents outside of the British isles have a combined record of (74-3-0).

Yeah but there names were Will McIntyre and Mario Veit. LOL

[Kirkland Laing]

Up to this point, Calzaghe has had too much of a privileged boxing career. All his fights he had home court advantage, it is time he step off of his pedal stool, roll up his sleeves and do some real work.

Calzaghe fought 15 times in effectively a foreign country before he won his first world championship. He's Welsh and his early fights were in England. He's also gone to Denmark and Germany to fight.

[superheavyrhun]

Yeah but there names were Will McIntyre and Mario Veit. LOL

You missed my point bro. I'm saying B-Hop shouldn't be throwing stones when he's sneaking a smoke down in the glasshouse himself. I apologise if Will McIntyre and Mario Veit don't carry the gravitas and potential HOF legacies of Segundo Mercado and Anibal Miranda.

[Fenster]

Why do all of the big fights have to be in the USA? Champion of the WORLD means just that. Not just champion of the USA. These Yanks are so full of themselves it's pathetic. The same people make a world series every year which does not include the world at all. Get over yourselves Americans. If anything, they should have the fight in some poor country like Ali/Foreman did. Peter Manfredo Jr. had the balls to travel abroad and Hopkins doesn't? What is up with that?

Ain't that like saying Audley Harrison had the balls to come to the US but not Calzaghe?

Nah, Audley couldn't get one man and his dog to watch him anymore, so he thought he'd go con you lot.

I doubt anybody would get tired of watching Harrison get knocked out

As much as I'd like to

I can't disagree with that. Shame.

[Violent Demise]

I think all the big fights should be held in Vegas. There is just something about Vegas, all the greats have fought there, its the glits, glamour and 24 hour party atmosphere that Cardiff or anywhere else for that matter just cant provide

How many fights you been to at each destination? Can't say I been to Vegas, but from what I've seen in "the movies" and fights televised from there, it seems a little dead to me. Then again, I'm biased as I love a good fight night and a knees up down in Cardiff.

You couldn't be more wrong. There's nothing like a big fight in Vegas. The atmosphere is incredible. The casinos are jumping. Every thing is cracking. Vegas is a party city. Nothing like it.

[superheavyrhun]

I think all the big fights should be held in Vegas. There is just something about Vegas, all the greats have fought there, its the glits, glamour and 24 hour party atmosphere that Cardiff or anywhere else for that matter just cant provide

How many fights you been to at each destination? Can't say I been to Vegas, but from what I've seen in "the movies" and fights televised from there, it seems a little dead to me. Then again, I'm biased as I love a good fight night and a knees up down in Cardiff.

You couldn't be more wrong. There's nothing like a big fight in Vegas. The atmosphere is incredible. The casinos are jumping. Every thing is cracking. Vegas is a party city. Nothing like it.

Well I can't speak for Vegas....but America doesn't seem to share the tolerance for getting wasted that we Brits do, and that we associate with a big party. I been kicked out of bars in Orlando, Minneapolis, Duluth, San Francisco and LA. REckon the casinos will let me drink till dawn and not give a f**k?

[Wacko3205]

of fighting all his professional fights in Great Britain? Why can't he come over to the USA to fight Hopkins? Isn't Hopkins the more accomplished of the two?

Honestly...it's no different than Hopkins never fighting outside the U.S. & it's really a ridiculous double standard.

Right now...I honestly believe that Hopkins needs Calzaghe, now.

Calzaghe, IWHO, deserves to fight where he wants to.

Being a Hopkins fan...all of this might sound odd...but he knows that the offer that they made was for shit.

Calzaghe's got the record for his unbeaten stretch hanging in the balance, he's topped Hopkins former record breaker, & he's gaining in popularity now with fan & the media. In the end...Hopkins always proves to be a pain in the ass to deal with...he'll ruin the possibilities of the fight happpening. No shit...I'm honestly debating the noon that Hopkins might even be "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeered" of ole' Joespeh

[cpcompany]

I think all the big fights should be held in Vegas. There is just something about Vegas, all the greats have fought there, its the glits, glamour and 24 hour party atmosphere that Cardiff or anywhere else for that matter just cant provide

How many fights you been to at each destination? Can't say I been to Vegas, but from what I've seen in "the movies" and fights televised from there, it seems a little dead to me. Then again, I'm biased as I love a good fight night and a knees up down in Cardiff.

You couldn't be more wrong. There's nothing like a big fight in Vegas. The atmosphere is incredible. The casinos are jumping. Every thing is cracking. Vegas is a party city. Nothing like it.

But, on TV that atmosphere can come across quite muted, unless its a fighter with a massive following.

[Violent Demise]

I think all the big fights should be held in Vegas. There is just something about Vegas, all the greats have fought there, its the glits, glamour and 24 hour party atmosphere that Cardiff or anywhere else for that matter just cant provide

How many fights you been to at each destination? Can't say I been to Vegas, but from what I've seen in "the movies" and fights televised from there, it seems a little dead to me. Then again, I'm biased as I love a good fight night and a knees up down in Cardiff.

You couldn't be more wrong. There's nothing like a big fight in Vegas. The atmosphere is incredible. The casinos are jumping. Every thing is cracking. Vegas is a party city. Nothing like it.

Well I can't speak for Vegas....but America doesn't seem to share the tolerance for getting wasted that we Brits do, and that we associate with a big party. I been kicked out of bars in Orlando, Minneapolis, Duluth, San Francisco and LA. REckon the casinos will let me drink till dawn and not give a f**k?

What bar did you get thrown out of in LA?

[NUCLEAR BULL]

i keep hearing excuses about how frank warren controls joe calzaghe but surely joe has his own mind, surely he knows that frank works for him, surely big bad brave joe can say " you know what frank....... i dont even know who this kid is i'm fighting tonight.... from now i want name fighters, you get me them or..... i do what ricky(hatton) did and jump to another camp cos frank, when i walk the street people say.......... who you fighting tomorrow joe or you fighting that reailty tv kid next week ha joe, 10 years hace pasted and i got a shot eubank, a overrated lacy and a tv star on my record to show for it, thank god kessler aggreed to come to wales or you'd have had me fighting my postman instead

both joe and warren just keep singing the same song......... sticking to fighting decent euro fighters in wales never considering going to vegas etc etc etc

a few years back roy jones said he wanted to fight joe and he'd do it in the uk...... but they said that roy was to old, had been sparked twice so it wasn't an option........ then they fight manfredo saying its for american tv......... surely roy jones a few years earlier would have been bigger, they pulled out the johnson fight twice so glen said he wants a money garenti so if they pullout again johnson gets paid for his truble they said no and the fight died there an then............... sounds a bit weird that..... TURN DOWN ROY JONES, TURN DOWN GLEN JOHNSON, fight unknown bika, fight tv celeb manfredo, do your best to call out past his best 43 year old hopkins

this fight will never happen